John Joseph Abercrombie

John Joseph Abercrombie (4 March 1798-3 January 1877) was a US Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Joseph Abercrombie was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1798, and he graduated from West Point in 1822. He served on garrison duty in Baton Rouge, Louisiana until 1825, and he later fought in the Black Hawk War of 1832 before serving in Illinois and Wisconsin. Abercrombie saw action during the Second Seminole War as a Major, and, after fighting at the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican-American War, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1857, he founded Fort Abercrombie in North Dakota, and, at the start of the American Civil War, the 63-year-old Abercrombie became a Brigadier-General of volunteers. He served under his father-in-law Robert Patterson in the Shenandoah Valley early in the war, and he was wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. After the end of the Peninsula Campaign, the elderly Abercrombie was replaced by younger officers, and he died in 1878.